This works! Thanks again, Dan!

I’ve discovered a lot of great expressions on the internet for a realistic bounce overshoot animation. The best one, and the one I’m going with is from Dan: https://www.motionscript.com/articles/bounce-and-overshoot.html

However, I’m looking for a “bounce out” overshoot expression- essentially just the reverse of the bounce in, where it bounces…

Read more

Good to know, Dan.

For context, I’m building a text animation script. The script itself is nothing fancy- it just creates some expression selectors on the active text layer and applies expressions that are linked to the Pseudo Effect. No image processing. The Pseudo Effect has dozens of different properties, but only a few are relevant based on…

Read more

Thanks for the insight Dan.

Is there a way to disable / “gray out” certain properties of a Pseudo Effect depending on a checkbox or dropdown? I haven’t been able to find documentation on this anywhere. I’m creating a rather large Pseudo Effect and having this functionality would really increase user clarity.

This exists in some built in AE Effect such as Fractal Noise…

Read more

Hello AE scripters! I’m trying to write a quick script that will open a shape layer’s path property.
I work with paths frequently and want to assign a keyboard shortcut to open the “Path” property, just like P would for position, for example.

I’ve written a script that will select that Path group, but that’s the best I can do right now. I’d like to…

Read more

this did the trick! Thank you Dan!

Hello all, I need some expression help.

I have a shape layer that has multiple shapes within the “Contents” group.

I need a variable that is the total number of groups within “Contents”

This seems like an easy task, but after trying a couple different methods… no luck. How can I accomplish this? Thank you in advance!

I’ve created a Pseudo Effect that has multiple slider controls, amongst other things. I need the slider controls to have default expressions already applied to the Slider whenever the Effect is applied.

I am able to apply default values, but is there a way to apply expressions in the same way? Here is part of my XML file for reference:

<Effect…

Read more

I am trying to make a responsive mask that dynamically wraps around the shape of my text layer. I watched Ukramedia’s tutorial on it which got me almost all the way there. The bug I keep running into is when I slide the layer around in time, the mask will move when it is not supposed to and remain in the wrong position.

You can see in the…

Read more

I’m building an expression for a keyframe-less animation, but I need a specific easing curve. The basic linear, easeIn, and easeOut functions do not give me as much easing control as I need. Right now I’m using the linear function and pulling the easing properties from a Slider Control, however I would like to hardcode a specific ease into the…

Read more

I need to write a script that creates a text animator with the position and opacity properties applied to it. I have tried many different attempts, but I keep getting this error:

“unable to execute script at line 7. After Effects error: can not add a property with name “ADBE Text Animator Group” to this propertyGroup, because this propertyGroup is…

Read more

Is there a way to build an expression for the “Based On” parameter within a text animator? I’d like to control it with a dropdown menu on the layer. Since there is no stopwatch icon, I cannot figure out how to write an expression for this. Any advice?

It’s applied to the position property of a text animator (Animator 1) on my text layer

I’m writing an expression for the position property in a text animator (Animator 1). I need to reference the index of the Animator group.

So far I’ve written this:

animatorIndex = text.animator(“Animator 1”).propertyIndex;

which gives me the value of 1, which is perfect. But when I duplicate Animator 1, I need the name in the line of code… Read more